Accents

[CimminyCricket]

My father is from Minnesota and my mother is from Tennessee. I've spent equal amounts of time in the north and south, so I have an accent that is a mix of the two. Which accent comes out more depends on the accent of the person I most recently talked to (or my mood). Jasmin laughs at me all the time when I say beg instead of bag or when the occasional aboot. I really only catch my southern accent when I talk to my mom and I don't do that very often.

WHERE in TN!? lulz

Does your dad talk like Marshall's mom? From How I Met Your Mother?

I've got no clue where in TN, maybe Memphis. Her dad's a racist, blind drunk and her mother is the most fantastic woman I've ever met. The two of them are divorced and have been for quite some time. Her mom lives in Reno, NV and her dad still lives in TN. I'm not sure where since his new wife made them move when a black man was seen walking in the neighborhood. I'm not sure if my dad talks like Marshall's mom, I haven't gotten that far in HIMYM. It isn't very obvious, if that's what you're asking. He spent nearly his entire adult life in the Army traveling and has probably lost his accent. He makes fun of my mother for her southern accent all the time.

[Shorty]

SLC Utah Accent Challenge (USA) - YouTube

This chick is almost 100% correct on all accounts with pronunciation and she's super adorbs, but she totally missed a big one with "fountain" - most valley folks say "fow anne" and completely miss the T, and "sirrup", which she half got. As for words she chooses like "pill bug" or "shopping cart", I say "rolly polly" and "basket". And I call the remote "the buttons". Mostly accurate!

GO UTES

[Freya]

Laddy you're too formal xD That's probably why people say you sound british.

I recorded myself for you lot as well.

[noxious.sunshine]

Lookit y'all. Sounding all proper and stuff. XD

[Shauna]

I also speak properly, as my mother brought me up to do so.

[Shoden]

Behold my voice, fresh from the rise of slumber.

[Tasura]

Well, here's me jumping on the bandwagon.

[noxious.sunshine]

Whenever I hear Aussie/Whatever "foreign" accents in general, I automatically think "Wow.. That person's -really- good at faking that accent." heh.

Ignore me. Klonopin is still working it's magic. Annnnd I need to go back to sleep.

[Mahad]

I have an accent. The world lives with it, although I don't have an idea of how bad it is. I don't try to speak so that people wont understand, but there's often a time or two where I'll have to repeat myself, more than once, to get my message across.

[Freya]

LISTEN TO ALL THE GLORIOUS ACCENTS!

[Citizen Bleys]

I'm actually a bit self-conscious about my accent; a bit over a year ago, I started making a conscious effort to enunciate the letter "t" correctly (around where I am, the letter T does not exist except at the beginning or ending of a word -- anywhere else, it's' pronounced like a D), so people from around here think I sound British. Now, I'm a confirmed xenophile, and I consume British television the way Americans consume spray-on cheese, so it gives the impression that I'm just a Brit-wanna-be.

The problem is, I don't actually sound British, at all. Yes, I enunciate the letter "T" clearly, unlike everyone else around me. Yes, I tend to use British diction as a result of prolonged and repeated exposure (Is there anything David Mitchell or Jimmy Carr has ever recorded that you haven't watched or listened to? Can't say the same). However, I do not pronounce a single solitary vowel sound the way anyone in England would in a billion years, I don't do glottal stops, and I pronounce the smurf out of the letter R.

An example of how the word "smartass" would be spelled if it were spelled the way it's pronounced:

Typical Canadian: smardass
Me: smartass
British: smoh'oss

(yes, my mic is made entirely out of excrement. I am aware of this)

I am never going to say "smoh'oss." I don't mind if I slip and say "smardass," but "smoh'oss" is flat out of the question.

I even pronounce the letter a correctly (not the British way) when quoting Monty Python, even though the actors themselves pronounce it like an o. Furthermore, with Canadian-accented vowel sounds, I am able to say the word "can't" without sounding like I'm saying c**t, which is something the English c**t say.

I actually have absolutely no problem if someone says I sound Welsh, though.

[Shorty]

We don't consume spray-on cheese.

[Freya]

oh god your mic it's like you're a robot!

[Citizen Bleys]

We don't consume spray-on cheese.

Then what the devil do you do with it? Grout your bathroom tiles?

[Shorty]

We brush our teeth with it, of course. That's why it comes in those tubes, isn't it?